GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| maxim | a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct |
| champion | a winner of first prize or first place in competition |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| edifice | building |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |